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It's Halloween weekend! Before you transform into a ghoul, a goblin, or – even scarier – a Squid Game guard, read up on what's happening in health justice this week, with five picks from MCN staff. Del applauded this editorial in the journal Nature: The COVID Pandemic Must Lead to Tuberculosis VaccinesJillian, from our Chico, California office, says this Washington Post article “is not... Read More
Semana Binacional de Salud: Ventanillas de Salud brindan oportunidades de salud, en línea y en persona
A principios de este mes, en un cálido sábado en la cafetería de una escuela primaria en Austin, Texas, decenas de familias fueron acudieron a su cita, con su cubreboca puesto y guardando su distancia, para recibir exámenes de la vista gratis. Niños pequeños de tres años hacia arriba, incluidos sus padres, fueron atendidos por voluntarios del Club de Leones encargados de realizar... Read More
It’s Friday! Time to peek into the inboxes of MCN staff. Each week, we share lots of news, resources, and videos among ourselves to keep up to date. Here are a few we wanted to highlight. Wilmarí shared new data from Puerto Rico of the time-varying effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines.Leslie recommended the NESAWG conference in Spanish: “It Takes a Region” ConferenciaAníbal forwarded on... Read More
Albert Einstein said, “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” I hope I am not being presumptuous to add a corollary: “Not everything that counts can count for me.” I add this sentence because it is something we attend to at Witness to Witness (W2W) all the time, since it is one of our approaches to managing the... Read More
Pull out the popcorn -- Five on Friday is going to the movies! While not exactly full-length Hollywood blockbusters, we thought you’d enjoy some visual content for this week’s blog post highlighting health justice news that have been shared by MCN staff. Enjoy! Esther shared this hilarious and insightful Jon Oliver episode on misinformation among immigrant communities. Deliana shared... Read More
Friday has finally arrived! Here are five resources & reads that MCN staff shared this week as we keep up with the world of health justice. We share tons more throughout the week on our Twitter and Facebook accounts – be sure to follow us there. You know about the loss of smell and taste, but have you ever heard of Covid Toes? Robert shared this article about painful foot lesions . ‘... Read More
By Kathleen Rest, Executive Director of Union of Concerned Scientists[Editor’s Note: At the end of September, Kathleen Rest published this post on The Equation, the blog for the Union of Concerned Scientists. You can read the original article here. Almost every month, a new heat record is broken as the climate crisis deepens, and, almost every month, an outdoor worker dies on the job as a result... Read More
Here on Five on Friday, we try to share a diversity of resources from the many members of the MCN staff who share what they're finding useful. This week, Alma Galván shared three exceptional and useful videos this week -- but we can't have her hogging our Five on Friday. What to do? We've joined Alma's recommendations together into one recommendation, but we know you're not fooled. So, here it is... Read More
[Editor’s Note: This article comes from the Summer issue of Streamline, Migrant Clinicians Network’s in-print quarterly clinical publication. Subscribe to Streamline for free to get in-depth articles on emerging health issues and promising practices related to migrants, immigrants, and food and farm workers. The Summer issue included articles on heat stress, COVID-19 and occupational determinants... Read More
Friday is here again – time to have a look into MCN staff inboxes with this week’s edition of Five on Friday. Got news or resources to share? We love to hear about them. Share with us on Facebook or Twitter. Alma G. offered this useful new website which maps out data from a global survey of knowledge, attitudes and practices around COVID-19: www.covidbehaviors.orgKaethe shared a new KFF... Read More
